Ok, I went and saw the M. Night. S. movie the other night: The Happening. I was on a forum where people were bashing him because this movie didn’t live up to his other movies (a.k.a. the kick ass ending).
He’s made some good movies in the past and to be judge by those movies is kind of unfair.
Each movie is different in its own way and a director (and writer) can’t guarantee that his movies will be a hit. Just ask Tarintino about his last movie endeavor. It blew.
Anyway, I’m a big movie buff and seen all of his other movies except Lady in the Water (but I will). I didn’t rush to the movies to see this flick. I was told it was scary by some friends so I decided to see for myself.
For the first few minutes it was pretty intriguing. Then, like the SAW flicks, it got old. Don’t get me wrong, creatively coming up with way to off one’s self I guess is a daunting task. Yet…it get’s old.
So, I wasn’t a big fan of this movie. It could have been a lot better. It was more like a sci-fi original movie fodder. It was painfully slow, way to much ‘emotional’ crap between the actors, and stupid decisions like “Here watch my kid because I care more for my wife than my kid. I know my wife is old enough to take care of herself and my child isn’t yet I’m going to abandon her to your care anyway. Also, since I’m a mathematician I know that I have a %68 chance of finding her the next town if I don’t die a horrible death first.”
Well, it wasn’t quite like that but dang near close enough.
Now, if the rude old lady (Betty Buckley) was causing it… that would have been cool. There were way too many subplots and just plain weird people.
I am going to make a generalization here, women in general find anything scary. The women who I talked to said this movie was totally scary and they had to cover their eyes the whole time. You watch it and be the judge; I thought it was kind of soft myself.